How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
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that's the right attitude. I don't know if you've heard the name George Mueller, but George Mueller was a man of faith. Over a century ago in England, the Bristol orphanage, he took care of hundreds, thousands of children off the streets, believing God for the provisions completely by faith, very successful. But this is what he said. George Mueller wrote this, quote, the vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. I solemnly state this from the experience of 54 years. The first three years after conversion, I neglected the Word of God. Since I began to search it diligently, the blessing has been wonderful. Great has been the blessing from consecutive, diligent, daily study. I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the word of God. That's attitude. That's the right attitude. There must be a hunger. It's never going to work unless you have a hunger for it. Only hungry people eat. People who aren't hungry don't eat. People who aren't hungry for truth don't read it. Somebody will say, well, look, I've already read it. I've read through the Bible before. How many times do I have to read Noah and the ark? Been there, done that. Well, that's sort of like saying, you know, I got apples off that tree last year. I can't imagine that I could get apples off that tree this year. You know how many times I've gone through …
"How sweet aire Your Words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" Psalm 119:103. IT is delightful to find how exactly the experience of David, under the Jewish dispensation, tallies with the experience of the saints of God in these Gospel times. David lived in an age of miracles and many manifestations. He could have recourse to the Urim and the Thummim, and the priesthood. He could go up to Zion and listen to the holy songs of the great assembly. He could converse with the priesthood but still, the food of his soul was supplied to him from the written Word of God, just as it is with us. Now that we have no open visions and the Urim, and the Thummim and the priesthood are altogether departed, we still feed upon the Word! As that is the food of our souls, so it was the food of David's soul. Martin Luther says, "I have covenanted with the Lord that I would neither ask Him for visions, nor for angels, nor for miracles, but I would be satisfied with His own Word, and if I might but lay hold upon Scripture by faith, that shall be enough for me." Now it seems to be so with David here. The honey that gratifies his taste is not found in angels' visits, or miraculous signs, or officiating priesthoods, or special Revelations, but in the words of God's mouth and in the testimonies of Holy Writ. Let us, dear Brothers and Sisters, prize this Book of God! Be not ambitious, as some are, of seeking new Revelations, or enquire for the whispers of disembodied spirits, but be satisfied with this good household bread which God has prepared for His people! And while others may loathe and dislike it, let us be thankful for it and acknowledge with gratitude the bread which came down from Heaven, testifying to us, as it does, of the Lord Jesus, the Word of Life that lives and abides forever! …
The first great fire is the Word of God. "Is not My Word like a fire, says the Lord?" It is so in many ways, but especially because it has such a warming influence. When we are spiritually cold and we go to hear the Word preached, how it warms our hearts! Brothers and Sisters, have you not often proved it to be so? You have been trembling, downcast and almost distracted—and you have said, "I will go and enquire at the hand of the Lord," and God has given you a message that has so changed your feelings that you have gone out with unspeakable joy, blessing God that your feet have trodden that floor which has become sacred to you through the visitation of God's Spirit! It is not often that I can hear a sermon, but when I do, I have sometimes had seasons of very gracious refreshing to my soul. I remember one Sabbath morning listening to a man who was by no means literate. And as I listened, I felt the tears streaming down my cheeks as I realized afresh how precious Christ was to me! And I envied the good people who could hear the Gospel preached Sabbath by Sabbath and who had not to stand up and deliver it to others—and go without spiritual food themselves. I am sure you who love the Lord will bear witness that when Christ is preached, your heart is always warmed. The preacher may have spoken very simply and not have tried to display any of the graces of oratory, yet the sermon satisfied your soul because Christ was in it! But if there is no Christ in it, you go down the aisles saying, like Mary Magdalene, "They have taken away my Lord." It is Jesus Christ that you need and when you get the Truth about Him, and about the Father, and about the Spirit—when you get the Doctrine of electing love, of God's faithfulness, of God's Sovereignty, of God's Immutability and all those precious things of the Covenant of Grace, you feel somewhat as the two disciples did when, on the way to Emmaus, Jesus Himself talked with them and their hearts burned within them! …